Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

I usually listen to classic rock and roll.

I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

I've never used the word jamming. It's a matter of finding a great song and learning the chords, then slightly altering the vocal melody, and matching a classic chord progression with another chord progression.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd seen some of the sequels and was not a fan of those.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

I would love an old classic car, or something like that. I'd get something much more subtle than any of those cars. The Lamborghinis were unbelievable to drive and to sit in and to film in. I loved the sensation because I love driving, so I appreciate them for what they are. But, I couldn't go into a showroom and buy something of that expense.

Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.

Kevin Garnett did the classic hold me back but fall away at the same time.

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

Mack Bolan is a classic American hero. Readers like him and I feel very good about that.

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.

My favorite movie is Dumb and Dumber. It's a classic and I can pretty much recite the entire movie.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much.

My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by keeping silent about the thing that you're terrified of, you bring it about - and even worse.

My grandma Ricky - that's where I got classic look from. She was the most stylish person ever. She had her own clothing store and even her furniture was stylish. I got my "Flashy, but classy" motto from her, too. Whenever she walked in the room, she was always the most stylish person in the room.

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers.

New York lost a classic. Carmine was an old school New Yorker.

Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Parineeta is a classic love story.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

Romantic dramas? I love The Notebook. Titanic was great. Classic.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

Saturday The 14th movie is a cult classic. And you know another one like that that I did, is Three O'Clock High. People come up to me about those two all the time. Film schools even study Three O'Clock High. Shot for shot, it's a textbook.

Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

So this is feminist corner then.

Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.